"The video library excerpts capture the range of foreign language teaching practices shown in the collection. You will see students in elementary, middle, and high school classrooms studying eight different languages. You'll see the students communicating with one another and with their teacher, learning culturally rich content, making connections to other disciplines, comparing cultures, and using the language in real-life contexts."

Shona Whyte's insight:

The Annenberg Foundation has this series of edited classroom videos showing examples of activities taught in second language classrooms with learner and teacher commentaries. For professional development, there are also questions to guide teachers in their analysis of the examples (French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Russian).

Short paper on text-to-speech for EFL input with intermediate Brazilian students. The researchers compared students' impressions and performance on tasks delivered by TTS and human voice and found little difference. They suggest TTS is suitable for pedagogical exploitation in contexts where authentic materials are in short supply.

These resources and tools are available for free. They are broken into four sections and listed alphabetically. If you have any questions, or would like to suggest another resource to add to this page, please let me know in the comments. Corpora, concordancers, engines, and analysis resources AntConc - AntConc and several other tools, such as…

Controlled study of use of modality in FR and EN at different levels of proficiency concludes:

"These crosslinguistic differences suggest that early L2 acquisition of verbal modal forms may progress more quickly for English than for French. This pattern could be explained with recourse to language-specific information concerning the complexity of the French system: Not only are verbs used in the French modal system subject to the same conjugation requirements as lexical verbs, but many such verbs are irregular. If this interpretation is correct, we may expect that modal adverbials play a greater role in French interlanguage than in English."

One of my RSLE students asked me if I could provide her with a reading list on corpus based research. Her interests are within teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. The list is for obvious reasons far from comprehensive. I’ve decided to choose those resources I’ve used in the past and which I have found